A DVD release celebrating the extraordinary young video and electronic music scene in Austria. These are radical avant-garde works that emerge logically from modern electronic music. The images sometimes tie in with the earliest pure abstract avant-garde
With her characteristic consistency Gertrude Moser-Wagner has viewed her work as a sculptress in the conceptual tradition even at a time when other approaches were more in the limelight. She uses very precise artistic stategies, such as the transferral
It is, in a word, glorious.... what I feel is the inherent power and mystery of such material, the arrangement of these images and sounds into a definition of cinema constitutes one of the greatest pedagogic films I have seen.... my main reaction is to ha
With his sensitive awareness, Neuwirth, got hold of dream-like pictures, which in his words, he allows to clatter, make loud noises, hum, thunder and sing.
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Lisl Ponger´s photographic and cinematic work investigates the circumstances of places and their territorial occupation by the camera, the acquisation of images, the function of photographic and cinematic representation, and the presentation of cultural v
Constanze Ruhm´s computer animations and films, of which a selection is presented in the framework of this edition, range between architecture, narration and performance, and investigate interrelations between the languages of cinema and new media. By sho
A confrontation with the codes of narrative-representational cinema is one of Peter Tscherkassky´s constant concerns. If one attempts to distill a constant from his films, then this must surely be the oscillation between the abstract and the concrete, bet
A quaint and grandiose series of short reportage Volks stöhnende Knochenschau produced in 1980 by video artists from the inner and outer circle of the Medienwerkstatt Wien, a time shift into another world.
In this broad sampling of works, Bulgarian-born, Vienna-based Mara Mattuschka playfully moves through motherhood to monster flicks where an alien, out on the town, wreaks havoc of epic proportions. Androgynous star Mimi Minus infuses mischievous humor and strange wisdom into the existence of Mattuschka´s characters.
Marina Gržinic and Aina Šmid are major figures of Slovenian video art. Their political art attacks the multilayered root of the videographic medium and its relation to mass media. Using cross references from cinema, literature, theatre, visual arts and ph
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